Improved floor-catch tor table-legs



waited tant @einem @Wina Letters Patente/'0. 94,011, dated August 24, 1869. f

IMPRO-VED VFLOOR-CLA'IC'JH FOR TABLE-LEGS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making pxt of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. LEMON, of Polk City, in the county of Polk, and State of Iowa, haie invented a new and useful Improvement in Floor-Catches for TableLegs; and I do hereby declare that the fol- Ylowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

which will enable others skilled in the 'art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

and efficient floor-catches for table-legs, to hold tables steadily, and prevent them from rolling over the oor `when ironing or doing other'kinds of work liable to cause them to move about, and applicable also to other articles of furniture.

Figure 1 represents an elevation of one method of securing the legs not having casters.

Figure 2 represents another method applicable to casters. v

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parte.

I propose to make holes A B in the iioor with abrupt walls on one side, and inclined or curved opposite. These holes I make to coincide with the legs of the table, which Idesire to secure,'or nearly so, preferring to make 'them so as to spring the legs slightly for insel-ting them.

In the case of tables without casters, I Yprovide headed pins D, in the bottoms of the legs,and I provide catch-plates E for screwing down upon the floor, so as to project over the edges of the holes or recesses,

and take into the grooves or behind the heads of thel rivets or pins.

Other plates may be tted to the other lsides of the recesses, at G, to protect the floor, or the whole may be made of one piece of cast-metal, with a depressed part, F,.tting the inclined side of the recess.

These plates may be let down into the oor flush with the top, or they maybe screwed into the top around the said recesses, andA tapered at the edges. The object ot' this invention is to provide simple In the case of tables with casters, I propose to make notches K in the housings L, which support the rollers, to be similarly engaged by the catch-plates.

,A catch-plate may be provided for each leg of a table, and thus holdit very rmly.

Any kind of standing furniture may also be. similarlyfheld. V

Then the floors are covered with carpets, they may be pressed down into the recesses, and the latter may be larger.V

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl Securing the legs of tables, and other furniture, to

the floor by means of catch-'plates E, when tted in recesses, so as to be Hush with the upper surface of said floor, and adapted to engage with vthe headed rivets D, or the notches K ofthe housings of casters, substantially as and for the purpose specified. W'itnesses: JOHN M. LEMON.

H. G. PHILLIPS,

WLLLIAMv DOLPHIN.` 

